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The preacher ohe wet that all human courses are 
vain: because the creatures are restless in their 
courses, they bring forth nothing new. Oe hath | 
found this so in the study of wisdom, | 
He words of the Preacher, the ö 
son of David, king in Jerusa | 
fem. Sanity of vanities, sait 

the Preacher, vanity of vani/ 
ties; all is vanity. What profit 

hath a man of aff his labour 
which he taketh under the sun? 
One generation passetf a wap, and another gener 

ation comet§ : but the earth abideth for ever. The 
sun also ariseth and the sun goeth do wn, and hast⸗ 
eth to his place where e arose. The wind goet)ß 

to ward the south, and turnetß about unto the nortßj; 
it whirletf about continuallp, and the wind return / 
eth again according to his circuits. All the rivers 
run into the sea; pet the sea is not full; unto the 
place from whence the rivers come, thither they re 
turn again. All things are full of labour; man can⸗ | 
not utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, 
nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hat ß 


been, it is that which shall be; and that which is 


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done is that which ofall be done: and there is no 


new thing under the oun. Js there any thing wheres 
of it may be said, See, this is new? it Gath been al 


ready of old time, which was before us. There is 
no remembrance of former things; neither shall 


there be any remembrance of things that are to come 
with those that ohhall come after. ¶ Ithe Preacher 
was king over Jorael in Jerusalem. And J gave 
my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concern / 
ing aff things that are done under heaven: this core 
travail hath Bod given to the sons of man to be ex⸗ 
ercised therewith. I have seen all the works that 


are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and 
vepation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be 
made straight: and that which is wanting cannot 
be numbered. J communed with mine own heart, 
caping, Eo, J am come to great estate, and have 
gotten more wisdom than aff they that ha ve been 
before me in Jerusalem: pea, my heart had great 


experience of wisdom and knowledge. Ind FI gave — 
my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness 


and folly: J perceived that this also is vexation 
of opirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and 
he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 


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| than joy in our labour; but that is Godꝰs gift. 


Said in mine heart, Go to now, 
J will prove thee with mirth, 
therefore enjoy pleasure: and, 
I begold, this also is vanity. J 
aid of laughter, It is mad: and 
* 0 of mirtß, What docth it? J 
— sought in mine heart to give 
myself unto wine, pet acquainting mine heart with 


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wisdom; and to lay hold on foltp, till I might sce 


what was that good for the sons of men, which 
they should do under the heaven all the days of 


their life. I made me great works; J builded me 


houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gar / 


daps to come shall aff be forgotten. And how dicth 


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dens and orchards, and J planted trees in them of 


all kind of fruits: J made me pools of water, to 
water therewith the wood that bringetß fort 
trees: J got me servants and maidens, and had 
cer vants born in my house; also J had great poss 
sessions of great and small cattle above aff that 


were in Jerusalem be fore me: J gathered me also 


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sil ver and gold, and the pecufiar treasure of kings 

and of the provinces: J gat me men singers and 

women singers, and the deligßts of the sons of 

Gene musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 
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was great, and increased more than all that 


were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom 
remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes de⸗ 


sired J kept not from them, N witßheld not my 


heart from any jop; for my heart rejoiced in all my 


labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 


Then J looked on all the works that my hands had 
wrought, and on the labour that J had laboured 
to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation 


¶ And J turned myself to behold wisdom, and 
madness, and folly: for what can the man do that 


of > ne there was no profit under the sun. 


cometh after the king? even that which hatß been 


already done. Then I caw that wis dom excelleth 


man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh 
in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one 


event happenetß to them aff. Chen said J in my 
heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth 

even to me; and why was Ithen more wise? Then 
A said in my heart, that this also is vanity. For 
there is no remembrance of the wise more than of 


the fool for ever; seeing that which no w is in the 


tze wise man? as the fool. Therefore J Hated life; 


because the work that is wrought under the un 
is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation 


of spirit. ¶ Vea, J fated all my labour which J 


had taken under the sun: because J should leave 


it unto the man that shall be after me. And who 


follp, as far as light excelleth darkness. The wise 


ation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under 


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lo wetß whether he o har lea wisemanorafoot? | 


et shall he have rule over all my labour wherein 
7 have faboured, and wherein J have oße wed my | 
self wise under the sun. This is also vanity. There / 
fore I went about to cause my heart to despair of 
aff the labour which J took under the sun. For 
there is a man whose labour is in wis dom, and in 
knowledge, and in equity; pet to a man that hath | 
not laboured therein shall he leave it for his por / 
tion. This also is vanity and a great evil. For 
what ath man of aff his labour, and of the vex / 


the sun? For aff his days are gorro wo, and his 

travail grief; pea, his heart taketh not rest in the 

night. This is also vanity. ¶ There is nothing 

better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, 

and that he should make his soul enjoy good in 

his labour. This also J caw, that it was from 

the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else 

can Basten hereunto, more than J? For Bod giv; 
eth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and 

knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth 

travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give 
to him that is good before God. This also is van; 
ity and vexation of opirit. 


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By the necessary change of times, vanity is added 
to human travail. There is an excellency in Bod o 
works. God o hall judge the righteous ¢ the wicked. 
Oe every thing there is a season, 
and a time to everp purpose un / 
der the heaven: A time to be 
born, and a time to die; a time 
to plant, and a time to pluck up 
that which is planted; A time 
e. to kill, and a time to heal; a time 
to break do wn, and a time to build up; A time to 
weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a 
time to dance; I time to cast a wap stones, and a 
time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, 
and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to 


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to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to ew; 


a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time | 
to lo ve, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a 
time of peace. What profit hath he that worketß 
in that wherein he laboureth? I Gave seen the tra / 


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get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time 


vail, which Bod Gath given to the sons of men to 


be exercised in it. Oe hath made every thing beauti⸗ 


ful in his time: also he hath set the world in their 


heart, so that no man can find out the work that 


Bod maketh from the beginning to the end. IKnow 


that there is no good in them, but for a man to re⸗ 


joice, and to do good in his life. And also that every 


man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of 
aff his labour, it is the gift of God. J know that, 


whats oe ver Bod doeth, it shall be for ever: noth⸗ 


ing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and 
Bod doeth it, that men should fear before him. 


That which hath been is now; and that which is 
to be hath already been; and God requireth that 
which is past. ¶ And moreover J saw under the 


sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was 


there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity 


was there. J said in mine heart, Hod shall judge 


the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time 
there for every purpose and for every work. N oaid 
in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of 
men, that God might manifest them, and that they 


might see that they themselves are beasts. For 
that which befalleth the sons of men befalletß 
beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one 
dieth, so dieth the other; pea, they have aff one 
Greath ; so that a man Hath no preeminence above 
a beast: for aff is vanity. AP go unto one place; 
aff are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who 
kno weth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and 
the spirit of the beast that goeth do wn ward to the 
earth? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing 
better, than that a man should rejoice in his own 
works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring 
him to see what shall be after him? 


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Vanity is increased unto men byoppress ion, byen vp. 
by idleness, by covetousness, by solitariness, by 
wilfulness. 
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all the oppressions that are done 
16 4 under the sun: and behold the 
tears ofsuch as were oppresced, 
and they had no comforter; and 
or the side of their oppressors 
ee there was power; but they had 


are already dead more than the living which are 
pet alive. Dea, better is he than both they, which 
hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work 
that is done under the sun. ¶ Again, J considered 


aff travail, and every right work, that for this a 


no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which | 


man is envied of his neighbour. This is also van / 


ity and vexation of spirit. The fool foldeth his 


| hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Better 


is an handful with quietness, than both the hands 
lie with travail and vexation of spirit. ¶ Then 


returned, and Noa w vanity under the sun. There 
is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath 
neither child nor brother: pet is there no end of all 
his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; 
neither saith he, For whom do J labour, and bes 
reave my soul of good? This is also vanity, pea; 
it is a Gove travail. ¶ Two are better than one; 
because they have a good re ward for their labour. 


For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but 


woe to him that is alone when he faffeth; for he 
hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie 


together, then they have feat: but ho w can one be 


warm alone! And if one prevail against him, two 
chal withstand him; and a threefold cord is not 
quickly broken. ¶ Better is a poor and a wise 
child than an old and foofieh king, who will no 
more be admonished. For out of prison he cometh 


to reign; whereas also he that is born in his king / 


dom becometß poor. J considered alk the living 


which walk under the sun, with the second child 


he i eee 
that shall stand up in his stead. There is no end of 
all the people, even of all that have beenbefore them: 


they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. 
Surelp this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. 


Vanities in divine service in murmuring against 
|| oppression, and in riches. Jop in riches is the gift 


of Bod. 


Eep thy foot when thou goest to 
tze house of Bod, and be more 
readp to hear, than to give the 
S Gacrifice of fools: for they con / 
Neider not that they do evil. Be 
| not rash with thy mouth, and let 
— not thine heart be hasty to utter 
any thing before God: for Bod is in heaven, and 
5 upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 
For a dream cometh through the multitude of busi⸗ 
ness: and a fool 's voice is known by muftitude of 


words. When thou vo west a vow unto Bod, defer 
not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay 
that which thou hast vowed. Better is it that thou 
shouldest not vo w, than that thou shouldest voww 
and not pay. Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy fleeh 

to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was 

an error: wherefore oßould God be angry at thy 
voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? For 
in the multitude of dreams and manp words there 
are also divers vanities: but fear thou Bod. ¶ If 
thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent 
perverting of judgment and justice in a province, 
marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than 
the highest regardeth; and there be higher than 
they. ¶ Moreo ver the profit of the earth is for all: 
the king himself is served by the field. He that lov⸗ 
etß silver shall not be satisfied with silver: nor he 
that fovet§ abundance with increase: this is also 
vanity. When goods increase, thep are increased 
that eat them: and what good is there to the owns 
ers thereof, saving the beholding of them with 
their eyes? he sleep of a labouring man is sweet, 


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of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. There is a 
sore evil which I have geen under the sun, namely, 
riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he ber 
getteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. Js 
he came forth of his mother 's womb, naked ohall he 
return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of 
his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. 
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as 
He came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he 
that hath laboured for the wind? Alk his days also 
he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and 
wvratß with his sickness. ¶ Behold that which I 
ha ve seen: it is good and comelp for one to eat andto 
drink, and to enjop the good of all his labour that he 
taketh under the un all the days of his fife, which 
Bod giveth him: for it is his portion. Every man 
also to whom Bod hatß given riches and wealt)h, 
and hatß given him power to eat thereof, and to 
tanke his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this 
is the gift of God. For he shall not much remem / 
ber the days of his life; because God answereth 
him in the jop of his heart. 


Vanity of riches without use. Of children, and old 
age without riches, Vanity of sight and wandering 
desires. The eee of vanities. 3 

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Sa | seen under the sun, and it is 
a= common among men: A man to 
whom Bod hat given riches, 
ö wealth, and honour, so that he 
wanteth nothing for his soul of 
fr eRe aff that he desiretß, pet Hod 
giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger 
eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 
€ If a man beget an hundred children, and live 
many pears, so that the days of his pears be many, 
and his soul be not filled with good, and also that 
he have no burial; J cay, that an untimelp birth is 


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better than he. For he cometh in with vanity, and 
departeth in darkness, and his name shall be cov 
ered with darkness. oreo ver he hath not seen the 
sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than 
the other. ¶ Yea, though he live a thousand pears 
twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go 
to one place? All the labour of man is for his mouth, 
and pet the appetite is not filled. For what hath 
the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, 
that knoweth to walk before the living? ¶ Better 
is the sight of the epes than the wandering of the 
desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 
That which hath been is named alreadp, and it is 
known that it is man: neither may he contend with 
him that is mightier than he. ¶ Seeing there be 
manp things that increase vanity, what is man the 
better? For who knoweth what is good for man 
in this life, all the days of his vain life which he 
qpendeth as a shadowꝰ? for who can tell a man what 

shall be after him under the sun? 


Remedies against vanity are, a good name, morti⸗ 
fication, patience, wisdom. The difficulty of wis; 
dom. 
e Bood name is better than pre / 
cious ointment; and the dap of 
death than the day of one’s birth. 
(It is better to go to the house 
of mourning, than to go to the 
house of feasting: for that is the 
Sate!) end of aff men; and the living 
will lap it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laugh⸗ 
ter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart 

is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house 
of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house 
of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, 
than for a man to hear the cong of fools. For as the 
crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter 
of the fool: this also is vanity. ¶ Surelp oppres⸗ 
sion maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroy⸗ 
eth the heart. Better is the end of a thing than the 


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beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is bet / 
ter than the proud in opirit. Be not hasty in thy 
spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom 
of foots. Say not thou, what is the cause that the 
former days were better than these? for thou dost 
not inquire wisely concerning this. ¶ Wisdom is 
good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit 
to them that see the oun. For wisdom is a defence, 
and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowl; 
edge is, that wis dom giveth life to them that have 
it. Consider the work of Bod: for who can make that 
straight, which he hath made crooked? In the day 
of prosperity be jopful, but in the day of adversity 
consider: Bod also hath set the one over against the 
other, to the end that man should find nothing after 
him. Alk things have J geen in the days of my vans 
ity: there is a just man that perisheth in his right / 
eousness, and there is a wicked man that profongeth 
his life in his wickedness. Be not righteous over 
much; neither make thyself over wise: why should 
est thou destrop thyself? Be not over much wicked, 
neither be thou foolish: why shoufdest thou die bey 
fore thy time? It is good that thou shouldest take 
hold of this; pea, also from this withdraw not thine 
hand: for he that feareth Bod shall come forth of 
them all. Wisdom etrengtheneth the wise more 
than ten mighty men which are in the city. For 
there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, 
and sinneth not. Also take no heed unto all words 
that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse 
thee: For oftentimes also thine own heart know⸗ 
eth that thou thyself like wise hast cursed others. 
CAR this have J proved by wisdom: J aid, J 
wilf be wise; but it was far from me. That which 
is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? 
J applied mine heart to kno w, and to search and to 
seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to 
know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness 
and madness: Ind J find more bitter than death 
the woman, whose heart is enares and nets, and 
her hands as bands: whoso pleasetß Hod cha 


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escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by 
her. Behold, this have J found, saith the preacher, 

counting one hy one, to find out the account: which 
pet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among 
a thousand have J found; but a woman among 
aff those have J not found. Lo, this only have J 
found, that Bod hatß made man upright; but they 
ha ve sought out many inventions. 


Kings are greatty to be respected. The divine pro v⸗ 
idence is to be observed. It is better with the godly 
in ad versity, than with the wicked in prosperity. 
Bod's work is unsearchable. 
Do is as the wise man? and 

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tion of a thing? a man’s wis; 
dom maketh his face to shine, 
and the boldness of his face 
shall be changed. J counsel 
5 —— thee to keep the king's coms 
mandment, and that in regard of the oath of Bod. 
Be not Hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an 
evil thing; for he doeth whatsoe ver pleaseth him. 
Were the word of a king is, there is power: and 
who map sap unto him, What doest thou? Whoso 
keepetß the commandment shall feel no evil thing: 
and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and 
judgment. ¶ Because to every purpose there is 
time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is 
great upon him. For he kno weth not that which 
half be: for who can tell him when it shall be? 
There is no man that hath po wer over the opirit to 
retain the spirit; neither hath he po wer in the dap 
of death: and there is no discharge in that war; nei⸗ 
ther shall wickedness deliver those that are given 
to it. Alk this have J seen, and applied my heart 
unto every work that is done under the sun: there is 
a time wherein one man cufet§ over another to his 
own hurt. And so J say the wicked buried, who 
had come and gone from the place of the holy, and 
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done: this is also vanity. Because sentence against 
an evil work is not executed opeedily, therefore the 
heart of the cone of men is fully cet in them to do 
evil. ¶ Though a oinner do evil an hundred times, 
and his days be profonged, yet surely J know that 
it shall be well with them that fear Bod, which 
fear before him: But it ohall not be well with the 
wicked, neither ohall he prolong his days, which 
are as a shadow; because he feareth not before 
Bod. There is a vanity which is done upon the 
earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happen / 
eth according to the work of the wicked; again, there 
be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to 
| the work of the righteous: J said that this also is 
vanity. Then J commended mirth, because a man 
| Bath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and 
to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide witß 
| Bim of his labour the days of his life, which God 
giveth him under the sun. ¶ When J applied mine 
heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that 
is done upon the earth: (for also there is that nei / 
ther day nor night seeth sleep with his epes:) Then 
J beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot 
find out the work that is done under the sun: bey 
cause though a man labour to seek it out, pet he 
bhall not find it; pea farther; though a wise man 
think to know it, pet ofall he not be able to find it. 


Like things happen to good and bad. There is a 
necessity of death unto men. Of comfort in this life. 
Hod s providence rufeth over all. Wisdom is better 


than strength. 


N Or alk this I considered in my 
aN yt heart even to declare aff this, 
et that the righteous, and the wise, 


fo ve or Hatred by all that is bey 
—= fore them. All things come alikle 
to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the 

wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the un 


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clean; to him that sacrificetj, and to him that sac⸗ 
rificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he 
that eweareth, as he that feareth an oath. This is 
an evil among all things that are done under the 
eun, that there is one event unto all: pea, also the 
heart of the cons of men is full of evil, and mad; 
ness is in their heart while they live, and after that 
they go to the dead. ¶ For to him that is joined to 
all the living there is hope: for a living dog is bet, 
ter than a dead lion. For the living know that they 
shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither 
have they any more a reward; for the memory of 
them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, 
and their en vp, is now perished; neither have they 
any more a portion for ever in anything that is done 
under the sun. ¶ Bo thy way, eat thy bread with 
jñopy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for Hod 
now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be al⸗ 
ways white; and let thy head lack no ointment. 
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lo vest all 
the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath 
given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: 
for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour 
which thou takest under the sun. Whats oe ver thy 
hand findet to do, do it with thy might; for there 
is no work, nor de vice, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, 
in the grave, whither thou goest. ¶ Jreturned, and 
saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, 
nor the battle to the strong, neither pet bread to the 
wise, nor pet riches to men of understanding, nor yet 

fa vour to men of skill; but time and chance happen⸗ 
eth to them all. For man also kno weth not his time: 

as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the 
birds that are caught in the onare; so are the sons of 
men snared in ane vil time, when it falletj suddenly 
upon them. ¶ This wisdom ha ve J seen also under 
the sun, and it seemed great unto me: There was a 
little city, and few men within it; and there came a 
great king against it, and besieged it, and built great 
bul warks against it: Now there was found in it a 
poor wise man, and he by his wis dom delivered the 


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city; pet no man remembered that same poor man. 
Then said J, Wisdom is better than strength: news 
ertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and 
his words are not heard. The words of wise men 
are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that 
tufeth among fools. Wisdom is better than weap⸗ 
ons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. 


Observations of wisdom and follyꝛ of riot, slothful 
ness, and money. Pen’s thoughts of kings ought 
to be reverent. 
os JEad flies cause the ointment of 
the apothecary to gend forth a 
| stinking savour: so doth a little 
| folly him that is in reputation 
for wisdom and honour. A wise 
A2]| inan’s heart is at his right hand; 
et) Gut fool s heart at his left. Dea 
also, when he that is a fool walketh by the wap, 
his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one 
that he is a fool. If the spirit of the ruler rise up 
against thee, leave not thy place; for pielding paci⸗ 
fiet6 great offences. There is an evil which I ha ve 
seen under the oun, as an error which proceedeth 
from the ruler: Follp is set in great dignity, and 
the rich it in low place. Iha ve seen servants upon 
horses, and princes walking as servants upon the 
earth. Oe that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and 
whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. 
Whoso removeth stones ofall be hurt there with; 
and he that cfeaveth wood shall be endangered 
thereby. If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the 
edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom 
is profitable to direct. Surelp the serpent will bite 
without enchantment; and a bab6fer is no better. 
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; 
but the lips of a fool will o wallo w up himself. The 
beginning of the words of his mouth is foolis ness: 
and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A 
fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what 
shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell 


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him? The labour of the foolish wearieth every one 
of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the 
city. ¶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a 
child, and thy princes eat in the morning! Blessed 
art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, 
and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and 


not for drunkenness! ¶ By much slothfulness the 
building decapethz andthrough idlenessofthe hands 


the house droppeth through. ¶ A feast is made for 


faughter, and wine maketh merrp: but money an⸗ 


sy ereth all things. ¶ Curse not the king, no not in 
thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedcham / 


ber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and 
that which Gath wings ofall tell the matter. 
judgment in the days of youth, are to be thought on. 


Directions for charity. Death in life, and the day of 


Jet thy bread upon the waters: 
for thou s halt find it after many 
days. Give a portion to seven, 
and also to eight; for thou know ⸗ 
est not what evil shall be upon 
the earth. If the clouds be full 
| of rain, they empty themselves 
upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, 
or toward the north, in the place where the tree fall 
eth, there it ofall be. Oe that observeth the wind 
shall not sow; and he that regardetß the clouds 
shall not reap. As thou kno west not what is the 
wap of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the 
womb of her that is with child: even so thou knows 
est not the works of Bod who maketh all. In the 
morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold 
not thine hand: for thou kno west not whether shall 
prosper, either this or that, or whether they both 
shall be alike good. ¶ Trulp the light is oweet, and 
a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 
But if a man live many pears, and rejoice in them 
all; pet let him remember the days of darkness; 
for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. 
¶ Rejoice, O poung man, in thy pouth; and let thy 


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heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk 
in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine 
eyes: but know thou, that for aff these things God 
will bring thee into judgment. Therefore remove 
sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy 
fleoß: for childhood and youth are vanity. 


The Creator is to be remembered in due time. The 
preacher's care to edifp. Che fear of Bod is the 
chief antidote of vanity. 

i enember now thy Creator in 
the days of thy youth, while the 
evil days come not, nor the years 
* dra wnigh, when thou shalt sap, 

I fave no pleasure in them; 
J white the oun, or the light, or the 
moon, or the stars, be not darks 
ened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the 
dap when the keepers of the house shall tremble, 
and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the 
grinders cease because they are few, and those that 


look outof the windows be darkened, Ind the doors 
half be ohut in the streets, when the sound of the 


grinding is low, and he ehall rise up at the voice 
of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall 
be brought low; Also when they shall be afraid 
of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, 
and the almond tree hall flourish, and the grass / 
hopper ofall be a burden, and desire shall fail: bey 
cause man goeth to his long home, and the mourns 


ers go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be 


loosed, or the gol den bowl be broken, or the pitcher 
be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at 
the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth 
as it was: and the spirit shall return unto Hod who 
gave it. ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; 
all is vanity. And moreover, because the preacher 
was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; 
pea, he gave good feed, and sought out, and set in 
order many eker The preacher sought to find 
out acceptable words: and that which was written 


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was upright, even words of truth. The words of 
the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the 

masters of assemblies, which are given from one 

shepherd. And further, by these, my son, be admon⸗ 
ished: of making many books there is no end; and 

much study is a weariness of the flesh. ¶ Let us 

hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Bod, 

and keep his commandments: for this is the whole 

duty of man. For Bod shall bring every work into 

judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be 

good, or whether it be evil. N 


¶ Three hundred copies of this book 
Ecclesiastes or the Preacher 
have been printed by John Henry Mash of 
San Francisco for the joy of the doing 
in the Month of December 
Mdecccxx 
Mo. 
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